interatom

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Proto-Indo-European *h₁én

Proto-Indo-European *-tér

Proto-Indo-European *h₁n̥tér

Proto-Italic *n̥ter

Latin inter

Latin inter-bor.

English inter-

Proto-Indo-European *né

Proto-Indo-European *n̥-

Proto-Hellenic *ə-

Ancient Greek ἀ- (a-)

Proto-Indo-European *temh₁-

Proto-Indo-European *-né-

Ancient Greek τέμνω (témnō)

Proto-Indo-European *-os

Proto-Indo-European *-ós

Proto-Indo-European *-ós

Proto-Hellenic *-ós

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Ancient Greek -ος (-os)influ.

Ancient Greek -ός (-ós)

Ancient Greek *τομός (*tomós)

Ancient Greek ἄτομος (átomos)bor.

Latin atomuslbor.

Middle French athomebor.

Middle English attome

English atom

English interatom

From inter- + atom.

Adjective

interatom (not comparable)

1. Occurring between atoms.
   • 2009 January 23, M. S. Kim, Jaeyoon Cho, “PHYSICS: Teleporting a Quantum State to Distant Matter”, in Science‎^[1], volume 323, number 5913, →DOI:

     The two photons from the two atoms are jointly measured with a beam splitter, which mixes the two input photons, and the atom-photon entanglement is transferred to interatom entanglement, which is the entanglement swap.